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S O S: POEMS 1961-2013.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Grove Press, (2015). First edition - A definitive compilation of Baraka's poetry, from his first collection (when he was writing as Leroi Jones) to previously unpublished pieces composed during his final years. His early poetry "emerged from the Beat generation, while his later writing is marked by intensely rebellious fervor and subversive ideology." This includes poems from eleven of his published books, with a final section of recent poems compiled after his death. Selected and with a prefaced by his friend and colleague Paul Vangelisti. [16]. 528 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78273More details Price: $40.00 -
NATIVE SONS, a Critical Study of Twentieth Century Negro American Authors.
Edition: First printing.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes authors from W. E. B. DuBois and William Attaway through Jean Toomer and Claude McKay to Ralph Ellison and LeRoi Jones, as well as Charles Waddell Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Richard Wright, Chester Himes, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, and William Demby. More than just an evaluation of these writers it is a look at some of the factors that shaped their writing - life in the South, migration, existence in the urban ghetto, interracial love, the Negro church, the historical perspective, the new nationalism, the Negro author as expatriate and more. Bibliography and index. 210 pp
Condition: Very good in a near fine dustjacket (prev owner's name, a few scattered marginal notations.)
Book ID: 88756More details Price: $28.50 -
NATIVE SONS, a Critical Study of Twentieth Century Negro American Authors.
Edition: First printing.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1968. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes authors from W. E. B. DuBois and William Attaway through Jean Toomer and Claude McKay to Ralph Ellison and LeRoi Jones, as well as Charles Waddell Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Richard Wright, Chester Himes, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, and William Demby. More than just an evaluation of these writers it is a look at some of the factors that shaped their writing - life in the South, migration, existence in the urban ghetto, interracial love, the Negro church, the historical perspective, the new nationalism, the Negro author as expatriate and more. SIGNED on the half title page. Bibliography and index. 210 pp
Condition: Good overall in a near fine dustjacket (a tight copy, but highlighting and marginal brackets on several pages)
Book ID: 88757More details Price: $35.00 -
GIVE BIRTH TO BRIGHTNESS, a Thematic Study in Neo-Black Literature.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dial Press, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - African American poet and novelist's important first book - a study of Black writers in America, focusing the concept of the hero and the rule breaker using the writings of James Baldwin, LeRoi Jones and Ernest Gaines, among others. Bibliography. 252 pages
Condition: Ex-library with the usual pocket and stamps - however, overall this is a tight clean and apparently unread copy of an extremely hard to find first book, in a very good dustjacket (some tape remnants on the flaps) Issued simultaneously in both hardcover and paperback, it seems that almost all of the hardcover issue went to libraries.
Book ID: 19711More details Price: $75.00
